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Electricity Companies and Railway Networks as Newcomers in Telecommunications
Whether or not the networks of railway and electricity companies will be able to provide an alternative competitive infrastructure for the provision of telecommunication services, depends both on the existing ...
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Who is afraid of capital mobility? on taxation of labor income and the level of public services in an open economy
This paper deals with the effects of international capital mobility on the taxation of labor income and on the size of the public sector. It employs a model of the labor market where national trade unions set ...
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Asylum seekers in Europe: the warm glow of a hot potato
The Common European Asylum System calls for increased coordination of the European Union (EU) countries’ policies towards asylum seekers and refugees. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of the effects...
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Citizen-candidate mobility and endogenous local policy
In this paper we analyze the influence of personal mobility on the citizens’ willingness to run for a political office in their municipality and on the resulting local policy outcome. Our model portrays hetero...
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The coordinate plane of global governance
The ‘coordinate plane of global governance’ developed in this paper describes the trade-off between static gains and dynamic losses associated with international policy harmonization. A simple model illustrate...
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Temporary immigration visas
This paper deals with recent proposals concerning temporary immigration visas as a means to combat the problem of illegal immigration. We set up a simple two-period model of international migration between a p...
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Financial integration in autocracies: Greasing the wheel or more to steal?
This paper analyzes the influence of financial integration on institutional quality. We construct a dynamic political-economic model of an autocracy in which a ruling elite uses its political power to expropri...
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Size versus scope: on the trade-off facing economic unions
This paper analyzes the relationship between the size of an economic union and the degree of policy centralization. We consider a political economy setting in which elected representatives bargain over the deg...
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Natural resource extraction, corruption, and expropriation
We develop a formal model that looks at the mutually endogenous determination of foreign direct investments in the extraction of natural resources, at the decision of host governments to expropriate these inve...
